Editing 2010 (section)

===December===
* [[December]] – Comet [[Hale Bopp]] was found again around 30.7 [[Astronomical unit|AU]] away from the Sun. The previous time the Comet was found was in [[April 1997]].
* [[December 9]] – [[Estonia]] becomes the 34th member of the [[OECD]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/estonia/estoniasaccessiontotheoecd.htm|publisher=[[OECD]]|title=Estonia's accession to the OECD|date=December 9, 2010|access-date=July 22, 2016|archive-date=October 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012061249/http://www.oecd.org/estonia/estoniasaccessiontotheoecd.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] – The attempted [[suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi]], a street vendor in [[Tunisia]], triggers the [[Tunisian Revolution]] and the wider [[Arab Spring]] throughout the [[Arab world]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/world/africa/22sidi.html|title=Slap to a Man's Pride Set Off Tumult in Tunisia|last=Fahim|first=Kareem|date=2011-01-21|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2017-01-16|archive-date=January 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118033751/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/world/africa/22sidi.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – The first [[December 2010 lunar eclipse|total lunar eclipse]] to occur on the day of the Northern [[winter solstice]] and Southern [[summer solstice]] since [[List of 17th century lunar eclipses|1638]] takes place.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/17dec_solsticeeclipse/|title=NASA Science News: Solstice Lunar Eclipse|access-date=October 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105100428/http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/17dec_solsticeeclipse/|archive-date=November 5, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/lunar-eclipse-winter-solstice-to-coincide-1.955339|title=Lunar eclipse, winter solstice to coincide|date=December 20, 2010|access-date=October 21, 2014|work=CBC News|archive-date=December 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101220103146/http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/17/lunar-eclipse-winter-solstice-coincide.html|url-status=live}}</ref>